"Ultimately, it’s the franchise’s ethical principles, progressive acceptance, and strong sense of justice embedded within each episode that autistic people find themselves relating to. Sara Luterman, an autistic journalist, previously wrote “[Spock] exists in an environment where everyone around him accepts his alternate perspective and never treats it as burdensome or a deviation from the ‘correct’ one.” Another autistic fan, Leena Haque, told me she loved that Star Trek “always promoted the importance of equality.” With crew members believed to be autistic and getting along in a world with fairness and justice, it was easy for some autistic fans to feel that was a world they could live in and feel like part of our real world communities, too. Even while not being a superfan, Star Trek always makes me feel as though I could live in an accepting world that so many of my friends and fellow autistics observed throughout the galaxy and dream of here on Earth."